Talk:2978: Stranded
This reminds me of the apocryphal UK newspaper headline (sometimes claimed to be The Times in 1957): "Fog in (the English) Channel - Continent Cut Off"
See e.g. https://www.quora.com/Is-the-famous-headline-Fog-in-Channel-Continent-Cut-Off-an-urban-myth
It gets worse, SpaceX's Falcon 9 is grounded too: SpaceX's Falcon 9 grounded after failing landing attempt:
- Falcon 9 is also due to launch two NASA astronauts in late September on a Crew Dragon spacecraft that will bring home next year the two astronauts who have been stuck on the International Space Station after riding Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft. NASA regulates Falcon 9 for its own missions. It was not immediately clear how the rocket's latest grounding will affect that NASA mission. The U.S. space agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Here's hoping those guys like the view. 172.71.166.165 20:48, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
I was going to add something about how the people on Earth not being alone may not be a benefit, considering all the political division and wars going on down here. But I think that's too much editorializing for an explanation. But we can say what we like in the comments. Barmar (talk) 21:18, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
I just noticed that howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com doesn't list Wilmore and Williams. RegularSizedGuy (talk) 22:13, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
- But it lists people who got back in July 2022, so I'd say it's not kept up to date....
- --188.114.102.116 22:19, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
wow this is JUST like the jevil 172.69.64.184 23:16, 28 August 2024 (UTC)Bumpf
The transcript currently includes the statement “There's an elliptical window through which they can see the planet below”. Analysing the image carefully, that’s clearly correct - but at first, second and third glance I can’t help but see it as a circular porthole on an isometric view of a non-existent bulkhead on the left… I guess I’m just conditioned to expect things at ~30 degree angles to be isometric, rather than “floating in space”… 172.69.194.83 07:06, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
- In a few moments, I'm going to change it to "large round". Roundedness does not admit to (nor deny) circularity, so covers any orientation of the bulkhead (also not sure what you mean by "non-existent", as the whole greebled wall you see is the probably-at-an-angle outer bulkhead).
- It is also very large, in keeping with xkcd's illustrative fiction (bigger, but more believably non-cornered than 2906: Earth, if that's supposed to be a window/porthole; a variety seen looked out of in 865: Nanobots; I recall at least one other with a large window, but can't recall the circumstances at the moment). Noting that the ISS's cupola is probably the most "windowy window" actually in use, due to practical concerns that I'm sure we'd all have about a huge (necessarily thick) spread of 'glass' that's needed in this sort of scene for aesthetic reasons.
- Not as bad as "Hollywood"-type submersible picture-windows, of course. You have to resist no more than one atmosphere of pressure, outwards, in space. You have to resist multiple atmosphere's of pressure, inwards, at depth. A hemispherical bubble-end (or a symmetric slice of one) could be adopted from deep-sea applications, but the window would have to bulge inwards for best strength and safety purposes against the outwards pressure, making a more awkward method of viewing at all angles (and possibly distorting astronomical photographs in ways that reduce their convenient usefulness). 141.101.99.218 12:04, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
This is basically the plot of Seveneves 162.158.33.196 08:58, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
I can see why they wanna stay in space today, and probably forever tbh 172.70.160.231 10:53, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
I'm fairly concerned that nobody else is concerned that the astronauts will die from 8 MONTHS in space. Unless I'm wrong, prolonged space stays usually lead to atrophy of pretty much every human organ due to the nonexistence of gravity, right? But they'll be there for 8 months... 172.69.71.84 18:54, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
